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seemingly random scenes of Bahrain landscapes, the installation evokes the
construction of a collective imaginary of remote places throught their
fragmented appearance in the media and in our living rooms. The normally
individual act of media imagery of the faraway is isolated and become a
sensorial experience. These images will add themselves to other images conjured
in your head of this place; another set of mental images of place you might
never visit, but that you will certainly construct an imaginary of. The
installation shows a landscape transformed by the passage of time, the change
of daylight, of season and by the succession of different moments of the day.
The sensation of being inside a real place, arbait a far away one, gives the
installation a quality of pure context; and perhaps offers the viewer an
experimental “memento”. Time will simultaneously pass in Venice and in Bahrain.
The viewer will be part of a long “now” lasting as long as he has the patience
to wait. Although the locations are but two points in space and time,
projections share one proposed reality.